Eino Koponen

• University of Turku

Tämä juhlakirja koostuu neljästäkymmenestäkolmesta professori Riho Grünthalin (s. 22.5.1964) 60-vuotispäiväksi kirjoitetusta lahjasta. Opiskelu- ja työtoverit sekä oppilaat tarkastelevat artikkeleissaan uralilaisen kielikunnan eri haaroja sekä kielten ja puhujayhteisöjen esihistoriaa. Kirjoituksissa käsitellään Grünthalille läheisiä aiheita. Tutkit...

The article deals with Saami nominal derivational suffixes of the type *-lmV, *-lmVs (e.g. Skolt Saami cõõggâlm ‘prop’ and North Saami buozalmas ‘illness’) and their variant suffixes *-lvV, *-lvVs (e.g. Skolt Saami kuõddâlv ~ kuõddâlm ‘griffin’, Lule Saami gatjálvis ‘question’ and Ume Saami buatsalvis ‘illness’). These derivatives are usually verb-...

The article presents a comparative-historical survey on Saami verbal derivatives with a suffixal *-š- (or *-šš-), based on extensive dictionary data from all Saami languages. The derivatives are divided into several subtypes using structural and functional criteria, and the distribution of each subtype as well as shared derivatives between Saami la...

32 Yksi keskeinen osa kolttasaamelaista kulttuuria on leu'dd-perinne, joka on yk-si lauletun saamelaisen musiikin lajeista. Leu'ddeissa kuvataan kolttasaamelaisten elämää, ihmisiä ja erilaisia tapahtumia yhteisössä. Ne ovat myös osa laajempaa Kolttasaamelaisen Näskk Moshnikoffin leu' dd-kielen idiolekti Koltansaame on inarinsaamen ohella pienin Suo...

The article discusses Saami censive verbs containing the suffixal element -š-, such as North Saami guhkášit ‘consider (too) long’ (of guhkki ‘long’). The occurrence of individual derivatives and derivational subtypes across the Saami languages are studied on the basis of extensive dictionary data, and the outlines of the historical development of t...

This chapter provides an introduction to the Saami languages, a chain of indigenous language varieties constituting the westernmost branch of Uralic, especially their reconstructible proto-form, Proto-Saamic, its genesis and central features. Proto-Saamic, a sister language of Proto-Finnic, was probably spoken (also) south of the historical Saami a...

Skolt Saami is an indigenous language originally spoken on both sides of the present-day Norwegian-Russian border. Today, almost all of the 200–300 remaining speakers live in Finland, especially in the municipality of Inari; they are resettled evacuees from the Petsamo region (which was ceded to the Soviet Union in 1944) or their descendants. Skolt...

The Uralic (Finno-Ugric) languages, the second largest language family in Europe, including three European nation-state languages (Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian) and a number of minority languages in Northern Eurasia, look back to a long history of research. However, a major part of this research has been conducted within diverse national traditions...

In this article, a survey of Saami *-(e̮)hče̮ frequentative verbs is made based on dictionary data from all Saami languages. The analysis of their base verbs shows that in most of the languages, the frequentative derivatives are not restricted to *ē-stem bases as in North Saami; specifically in Skolt and Kildin Saami, the derivational type seems to...

Timothy Feist: A Grammar of Skolt Saami. Mémoires de la Société Finno-Ougrienne 273. Finno-Ugrian Society. Helsinki 2015. 414 p. https://doi.org/10.33339/fuf.86126 This is an assessment of the merits of the English-language Skolt Sami Grammar written by Timothy Feist with respect to existing scholarship already available in English, Finnish and G...

This chapter describes negation in Skolt Saami in a typological perspective. In the standard negation construction, the negative marker is a negative auxiliary verb and the lexical verb appears in a non-finite form. Negative imperatives employ a special form for the negative auxiliary. The copula used with non-verbal predicates is negated with stan...

Abstract: The origin of vocabulary in the South Estonian dialect. Väitösk. -- Helsingin yliopisto.